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To: ManyMoose who wrote (91232)	10/21/2008 11:53:44 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541326

LOL, I DO see your point! But I really don't think that was the intention of the illustrator. No one believes Obama is the Messiah. They DO invest an enormous amount of hope in him, expectations that are probably far greater than he, or any one, could possible meet. That's how very desperate people feel for new leadership. And thus, the Messiah metaphor. But I draw the line at an intentional depiction of him as Christ by the author. The American people have a strange habit of elevating mere humans to godlike stature, regardless of the realities. ONe reporter described a crowd at a Palin rally as not caring what she said, but wanting only to hear and touch her. What is it they are looking for? Princess Di had that effect, Obama does, too. I suppose it's charisma. The indefinable X factor. But was it you who said that can be a dangerous thing, also? I for one don't underestimate Palin for that reason. SHe isn't stupid at all. She is, as Lane said, ignorant. She jumped in over her head, floundered, and people have realized that what they had hoped for in her wasn't reality, at least not yet. But I wouldn't count her out. She's very ambitious.